Swordale

Amelia's oil paintings strive to relay the atmosphere and emotion of the landscape through a personal and momentary experience. They contain the ideas of capturing the sublime and those immediate feelings of drama in a continuously changing landscape, which she feels are inexplicable through words and drives her to explore and express these emotions through the media of paint and line.

Amelia's interest in the landscape was stimulated by her childhood in the countryside of West Sussex where adventures on the South Downs with its ever changing skies and their dramatic effects on the land beneath became her inspiration when she discovered her passion for painting. Choosing Falmouth College of Arts in Cornwall to persue her degree allowed Amelia to surround herself with an endless supply of exciting subject matter. As a result Amelia had a sell-out graduation show from Falmouth in 2007 and was selected by the Singer and Friedlander Watercolour Competition to be exhibited at the Mall Galleries in London 2006. Since graduating she has exhibited across the south including Cornwall, Brighton, Alresford and London, and continues to undertake commissions.

Amelia Humber returned to London in 2007 where she originally studied her foundation course at Wimbledon School of Art, choosing to move back to the hubbub of the capital to be among and involved in the diversity of creative talents, as well as to improve her skill sets. She frequently revisits Cornwall and the South Coast to paint the land and seascapes she is so passionate about. More recently her subject matter has extended to the Highlands and the surrounding Scottish landscape which she has been visiting annually. Having family ties from Sussex to the North east, she enjoys travelling to a diversity of landscapes, often painting on location and returning to London where she can use her studio to finalise her work. The juxtaposition of working in London and travelling to the open countryside helps her to see familiar places in a new light and with a revitalised appreciation.